New Canaan students celebrate Earth Day distance learning

By Grace Duffield

Updated
11:49 am EDT, Thursday, April 23, 2020

New Canaan Public School students are e-learning from home via the internet, and distance learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. With Earth Day being on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, and it being more subdued than it has been in past years, people in the area still tried raising awareness about its 50th anniversary. At West Elementary School in New Canaan for instance, third grade teachers used a distance learning app called Flipgrid to focus on how students can help the Earth. As for New Canaan’s older students, the Advanced Placement, (AP), Environmental Science classes at New Canaan High School created Public Service Announcements, (PSA’s), about environmental subjects. Students have also been doing work with the planets in our solar system like Saturn, and our Earth, on other days other than Earth Day, and while they have been distance learning, as a student is seen doing here during the second week it was being done.

New Canaan Public School students are e-learning from home via the internet, and distance learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. With Earth Day being on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, and it being more

New Canaan Public School students are e-learning from home via the internet, and distance learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. With Earth Day being on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, and it being more subdued than it has been in past years, people in the area still tried raising awareness about its 50th anniversary. At West Elementary School in New Canaan for instance, third grade teachers used a distance learning app called Flipgrid to focus on how students can help the Earth. As for New Canaan’s older students, the Advanced Placement, (AP), Environmental Science classes at New Canaan High School created Public Service Announcements, (PSA’s), about environmental subjects. Students have also been doing work with the planets in our solar system like Saturn, and our Earth, on other days other than Earth Day, and while they have been distance learning, as a student is seen doing here during the second week it was being done.

New Canaan Public School students are e-learning from home via the internet, and distance learning because of the coronavirus pandemic. With Earth Day being on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, and it being more

That question was asked of students on Wednesday, April 22, 2020, the 50th anniversary of Earth Day — a subdued celebration given the distance learning and do-not-gather requirements caused by the coronavirus pandemic.